[Ham-Mac] Why Partition vs. Erase a SATA hard drive?

[Rick Prather]

I suspect the problem is that you are clicking on the Volume in the  
left panel and not the Drive ID it is on.

Rick
K6LE

On Aug 1, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

> I just installed a Serial ATA/PCI-M card from SIIG that lets me  
> mount one of
> the new faster (cheaper) Serial ATA drives.  The card seems to work  
> okay
> and the new Seagate SATA drive seems fast.
>
> The docs that came with card said to use the OSX Disk Utility  
> "Partition"
> option.  I may have screwed up by using the "Erase" option.  Anyone  
> know the
> difference between Erase and Partition.  The Partition has the  
> option to
> only make one partition.  I have never partitioned anything.
>
> Dick AA5VU
>
>
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